The Baffler

Baffled masses: Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Weeks before news broke that the popular social networking site LinkedIn was being sued by customers for regularly and shamelessly hacking into their customers’ email accounts, Ann Friedman’s sharp piece ...

Inspired by the fifth anniversary of the financial crisis, this week the Huffington Post’s Eat the Press writer Jason Linkins has done the yeoman’s work of compiling a panoply of books, films, and music on the subject. Among these he has kindly included his ...

The Pines 6300 block Pine Ridge 5-5 1:50 PM Report of theft of fireplace from house under construction, case under investigation. 181st St. & 66th Ave. 5-5 5:26 PM Report of male white subject in brown car that just shot a paint ball at resident’s vehicle. Officer will ...

As Baffler 18 went to press they were setting out the Christmas book display at the Kansas City Costco, a retail bazaar whose parking lot occupies the site of the city’s last jazz club. We never enter this particular Costco without thoughts about mortality, about what had to ...

We sent this issue to press in June 2006 from Ana Cruz’s apartment high above the treetops in The Flamingo Hotel. As we watched cool wisps of mist drift inland from the lake, we wondered whether Ana’s national team, Brazil, really was going to win the World Cup. Then we ...

We finished this issue in November 2002, shuttling between Dan Raeburn’s pied-à-terre in the fashionable Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago and our spread in Woodlawn. More than a year has passed since our last issue. We beg your pardon, but we’ve been busy homesteading. Our ...

From Multicultural Marketing News™: Media Contacts & Reliable Sources for Reporters … Business Resources for Executives Volume 4, Number 1, January/February 1999.

Grifters: We did the CMJ last fall, in order to meet some people to help us, like a booking agent, which we found, and we are happy with that, it’s low-key. But you inevitably run into those people, those label people, and we were taken out, and given the $150 breakfast. You ...